U.S. wins first gold medal of Paris Olympics at males’s 4×100 meter freestyle relay

The United States received its first gold medal on the Paris Olympics after a robust exhibiting within the 4×100 meter freestyle relay on Saturday.

The staff — made up of Jack Alexy, Chris Guiliano, Hunter Armstrong, and Caeleb Dressel — completed 1.07 seconds earlier than the silver medal staff, Australia. Italy received bronze.

Team USA has received gold on this occasion in 10 of the final 13 Olympics. It can also be Dressel’s eighth Olympic gold.

Earlier Saturday, the U.S. received its first medal in Paris when Sarah Bacon, 27, and Kassidy Cook, 29, received silver within the 3-meter synchronized springboard competitors. The American duo scored 314.64 factors, which put them firmly in second place behind Chang Yani and Chen Yiwen of China.

Katie Ledecky wins bronze in girls’s 400-meter freestyle

Katie Ledecky got here up quick to reclaim gold within the girls’s 400-meter freestyle on Saturday after Australian Ariarne Titmus defended her Olympic title.

Titmus, often called “The Terminator” handed Ledecky a second straight defeat on the Paris La Défense Arena within the occasion that the 27-year-old American received in Rio de Janeiro in 2016.

With her fingernails painted Aussie yellow, Titmus led from begin to end. She confronted her stiffest problem from Canadian phenom Summer McIntosh however received comfortably in 3 minutes, 57.49 seconds.

McIntosh claimed the silver in 3:58.37. Ledecky was left of their wake and acquired the bronze in 4:00.86.

After Saturday’s race, the extremely embellished Ledecky stays at six particular person gold medals – nonetheless essentially the most of any feminine swimmer in Olympic historical past. The third-place prize is her eleventh total Olympic medal.

Titmus now has three particular person Olympic victories on her rising resume. She swept the 200 and 400 free in Tokyo, beating Ledecky, and is favored to tug off the identical double in Paris.

Ledecky is not performed but. She skipped an opportunity to face Titmus once more within the 200 free, however the American is favored to take gold in each the 800 and 1,500 races.

U.S. wins silver in girls’s relay

Team USA received the silver medal within the 4×100-meter swimming relay, dropping to Australia. China received bronze.

The U.S. relay staff, which included Kate Douglass, Gretchen Walsh, Torri Huske and Simone Manuel, set a brand new American file within the occasion with a time of three:30.20. The time was slightly below 2 seconds shy of Australia’s 3:28.92, which is a brand new Olympic file and the nation’s fourth straight Olympic title within the occasion.

The Aussies, who maintain the world file within the occasion, additionally held the earlier Olympic file time of three:29.69 which they set in Tokyo.

So far, the U.S. has received 5 medals: one gold, two silver and two bronze. American bicycle owner Chloe Dygert received bronze within the girls’s particular person time trial in street biking.